Nadav Kander, Chongqing XI Yangtze, The Long River Series
Nadav Kander is the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009.
He received the CHF100,000 from Kofi Annan at the Passage de Retz, Paris, on 22 October 2009.
At the same time Ed Kashi was selected to complete the Prix Pictet Commission 2009.
Edward Burtynsky, Iberia Quarries # 8, Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portuga
Nadav Kander Bathers, Yibin, Sichuan Yangtze, The Long River Series
Chris Steele-Perkins, Japanese Self Defence Force weapons training between Gotemba and Fujinomiya
Chris Steele-Perkins, Car park near Gotemba
Ed Kashi, Nigeria, 2006 Curse of the black gold: 50 years of oil in the Niger Delta
The Prix Pictet is the world’s first major prize dedicated to photography and sustainability.
It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience.
This is art of the highest order, applied to confront the pressing social and environmental challenges of the new millennium.
This year the theme of the award is earth.
Earth refers to the planet and the soil beneath our feet, to the marks that man makes on the face of the land – either directly through the creation of mines, toxic waste, urban wastelands, mountainous refuse dumps and blasted desert landscapes; or indirectly, through the scars left by fire, flood or famine and the impact of natural disasters: earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes or the migrations of displaced people.
Exhibition dates at the Empty Quarter Gallery: 9 February – 6 March 2010, so there’s still time.. If you happen to be in Dubai..
Nadav Kander is the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009.
